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From: cosell@cosell.bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: AmigaDOS calls in the Sybex manuals??
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Date: 5 Jan 88 20:53:34 GMT
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I _must_ be missing something -- I have the two-volume Sybex "Amiga
Programming Manual" (*not* Rob Peck's one-volume one).  On the whole I've
found it to be a fine, reasonably organized, reasonably complete manual.
BUT... over the weekend I wanted to do something real simple: I wanted
to find the creation date of a disk file.  Just a simple "fstat" for
you Unix-folk.  So I look and look and look.  Nothing.  Then it occurs to
me: I couldn't find ANY of the "basic" calls: open, close, read, write, seek,
etc.  Can it _really_ be the case that those aren't included.  If so,
that seems like an *astonishing* oversight!!  If not, I'll surely
appreciate the pointers to the corner of the manual that I missed.
Thanks
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